Commenting on The Irish Times has changed. The contribution of both author and translator is given equal recognition, with the £50,000 prize split between them. Tyll spent a year on the German bestseller lists, selling over 400,000 hardback copies. Sign up to the Irish Times books newsletter for features, podcasts and more. As grief overwhelms the farm, exacerbated by the foot-and-mouth-outbreak which requires the destruction of their herd, Jas succumbs to a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies, watching her family disintegrate into a darkness that threatens to derail them all. Three of the novels, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann have been inspired by their nations’ histories – namely the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, gaucho culture in 1870s Argentina and the Thirty Years’ War in Germany. A novel of hellacious force.”. https://t.co/hSx0SCcxN6@faberbooks #TranslatedFiction #TheDiscomfortofEvening #MariekeLucasRijneveld #MicheleHutchison pic.twitter.com/BYt9OYwMfi. Her debut novel La virgen cabeza (Slum Virgin, Charco Press, 2017) was followed by La Isla de la Luna (2012) (Island of the Moon), and Romance de la negra rubia (2014) (Romance of the Black Blonde) as well as two collections of short stories: Sacrificios (2015) (Sacrifices) and Y su despojo fue una muchedumbre (2015) (Her Waste Became a Crowd). Inspired by the death of the author’s brother as a child, The Discomfort of Evening, written by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison, has won the 2020 International Booker Prize. His works include Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski and Fame, and have won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer Prize, The Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize. She has won every major Japanese literary award. The novel quickly became a bestseller in the Netherlands, selling 55,000 copies, and has garnered international attention. Ross Benjamin was born in the US in 1981. Keep an eye on your inbox. When asked if the dark themes of the novel—which are based in their own childhood experiences—appeal to one kind of sensibility, Rijneveld said: “there’s always light in darkness, just as there’s always humor in gruesomeness. Gabriela Cabezón Cámara was born in Buenos Aires in 1968. International Booker Prize 2020: Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld wins for debut novel Debut novel inspired by brother's death makes Dutch writer, 29, youngest winner of translated fiction prize In 2013 she published a collection of short stories and a novel: Aqui no es Miami and Falsa liebre (both with Almadia), followed by Hurricane Season in 2017. It aims to encourage more publishing and reading of quality fiction from all over the world and to promote the work of translators. She is one of the leading figures in Argentinian and Latin American literature and one of the region’s most prominent feminist intellectuals. She is a senior lecturer in Latin American Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her translations include the bestselling An American Princess by Annejet van der Zijl, Mona in Three Acts by Griet op de Beeck and Seaweed by Miek Zwamborn. 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